• XiaoFeiJu@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    It’s just… this is something that should only exist in capitalist countries, not in a truly Red Left country according to the visions of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. It kind of destroys my worldview when I see this.

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      2 years ago

      If one video with no context or backstory of an asian man breaking a bump helmet with a safety helmet with a title claiming it’s because the workers are given cheap helmets is enough to destroy your world view of socialism/communism then perhaps your world view is a little too fragile.

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        2 years ago

        I used to be like this so I understand. It’s mostly because libs gaslight you into a strawman making you think that socialist countries have to be perfect paradises otherwise they’re worthless and Orwellian hell. It’s better to just admit and understand that it’s a human society that will have flaws and there will be some bad things that happen. Libs do this all the time, all the time they admit bad things about capitalism but can brush it aside as a bad but isolated instances, why can’t we leftists do that? Why does socialism have to be perfect 24/7 all the time?

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      Why would worker who freely talk about the fragility of a helmet while being in a crowd of many people be bad? As it is in Mandarin, I cannot comprehend him, but there are several workers who wear both helmet and that speaker has access to the both types of helmet. No Communist governments claimed that they are perfect, but at least they are more better than the sole successful Capitalist superpower that depends on free riding and military backed puppet governments in former European colonies.